Archive for November, 2011

Nadhi – SCM solution provider in Construction space

Provides Supply Chain Solutions for Real Estate and construction projects

Nadhi Technologies, a 2.5yr old Chennai based SaaS startup has developed  lightweight, easy-to-use construction supply chain solutions for real estate and infrastructure construction projects.

Nadhi.in is founded by two civil engineers – Vaidyanathan and Ravi. S. Mundoli from IIT-M; Both have worked in manufacturing SCM at i2 Technologies before founding Nadhi.  Nadhi is incubated out of the IITM Research Park.

Nadhi provides easy-to-use supply chain management (SCM) tools toreal  ensure the synchronous on-site arrival of labour and materials per the updated construction schedule through the life of the project.

Nadhi’s core solution is a project monitoring and control solution with a mobile extension  – nPulse™ that reduces the information latency between various stakeholders in a construction project to zero and transitions business from reactive to proactive. Nadhi has built the industry’s first procurement planning solution that uses inventory management theory to optimize material procurement costs in construction.

In short, Nadhi builds solutions that complement ERP systems. Nadhi offers business process consulting to help transition companies to a managed platform. Nadhi also offers lean construction consulting practice.

Nadhi’s target customers are EPC contractors, infrastructure project owners, real estate developers. The market size for IT in construction is estimated to be about $5 billion and the potential to expand worldwide also exists. Nadhi’s revenue sources are software revenue – both subscription (SaaS model) and enterprise license options are available and consulting services.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com

FashionandYou raises $40M

F&U raises $40M

 

Fashionandyou, an online flash sale site which specializes in fashion and lifestyle product  has raised $40M investments in its series C round. This round of investment was led by Mayfield fund and Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) along with Intel Capital, Nokia Growth Partners and Sequoia Capital.

This is the third round of investments at FashionandYou which was founded in January 2010, FashionandYou is owned by Smile Group Venture and Goldsquare Sales India Private Ltd. It was co-founded by former Yahoo India Sales Director Uppal, and backed by Smile Group founder Harish Bahl. In Dec 2010 Sequoia had invested $8M in this flash sale site.

Primarily funds will be utilized for strengthening its supply chain system, expand into additional categories, and make strategic acquisitions to complement their existing business lines. FashionandYou aims to become a 500Cr company in two years time.

Lets look at their recent monthly traction:

Traffic statistics
All traffic statistics are estimates
Region Worldwide
Unique visitors (estimated cookies)
1.3M 1.3M
Unique visitors (users)
690K 690K
Page views
34M 34M
Total visits
2.6M 2.6M
Avg time on site
14:30 14:30

FashionandYou already has a customer base of around 3M and with this massive funding coming in things looking quite rosy for them.

I am seriously wishing to see a massive improvement in their delivery cycle, then only they can get back some of their early adopter like me.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com